Speedlinks: 03/06/2009
In this edition: Umbrella lighting, car wrecks, epic journeys, imperfection, self-promotion and reinvention.
(After the jump.)
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• Quick eye candy: Steven Haulenbeek's beautiful lighting installations -- using photographers' shoot-through umbrellas.
(Thanks to Brad, via Toxel.)
• Remember Blair Bunting? (Rembrandt Lighting: NOT.) While it is always a good idea to let Blair photograph your hot ride, think twice about ever letting him drive it. (Scroll down.)
• Joey Lawrence, fresh back from Africa, had a great (if a bit NSFW-ish) post on Scott Kelby's blog. If you want to read more, Joey has several epic, travelog-style posts on his blog. (Scroll down.) Very much worth a read. It has me wondering what in the world he will do next.
• From the Cobblers-Kids-Have-No-Shoes-Department: Photographer Eddie Roman filmed his own commercial. What a great idea. Here we are, visual peeps, with tons of free video distribution platforms, and how many people have thought to do this?
• So, what do you do after you have nailed your post production skills to the point of perfections? Scott (Chase Jarvis' go-to post guy) has an idea: Embrace imperfection.
* And finally -- two absolute, "must-sees" for photographers:
Tim Mantoani on loving what you do, and Zack Arias on reinventing yourself.
(After the jump.)
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• Quick eye candy: Steven Haulenbeek's beautiful lighting installations -- using photographers' shoot-through umbrellas.
(Thanks to Brad, via Toxel.)
• Remember Blair Bunting? (Rembrandt Lighting: NOT.) While it is always a good idea to let Blair photograph your hot ride, think twice about ever letting him drive it. (Scroll down.)
• Joey Lawrence, fresh back from Africa, had a great (if a bit NSFW-ish) post on Scott Kelby's blog. If you want to read more, Joey has several epic, travelog-style posts on his blog. (Scroll down.) Very much worth a read. It has me wondering what in the world he will do next.
• From the Cobblers-Kids-Have-No-Shoes-Department: Photographer Eddie Roman filmed his own commercial. What a great idea. Here we are, visual peeps, with tons of free video distribution platforms, and how many people have thought to do this?
• So, what do you do after you have nailed your post production skills to the point of perfections? Scott (Chase Jarvis' go-to post guy) has an idea: Embrace imperfection.
* And finally -- two absolute, "must-sees" for photographers:
Tim Mantoani on loving what you do, and Zack Arias on reinventing yourself.
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17 Comments:
you should feature my friend Morgan Bellinger's blog on here. He's on a journey from Phoenix to New York and he's taking some really rockin strobist portraits along the way: movephotography.blogspot.com
I always love speedlinks!!!
Unfortunately, Joey's blog is down:
"Error 500 - Internal server error
An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later."
Anyone have him on speed-dial? :-D
Please ignore my previous message.
Joey's Blog is back up. Thanks!
One of those links makes my Safari 4 beta crash. I still don't know which one, though.
seems as if it's Joey Lawrence's blog...
About Zack Arias on reinventing yourself.
Hy all, this is my first post on strobist.
First off all, thank you for all this knowledge! I have learned a lot by reading this blog and practicing along.
The reason of this post is because of the movie made by Zack Arias. His clip really got to me. He made me stood still and think about the important things in life. I hope the same clip will affect you as much as it did to me.
Greets,
Pieter Ale
What kind of bag is that Roman is using?
zack arias is my hero.
Thanks for the link Tim Mantoani's piece ... it's what I (and I'm sure a lot of other shooters) needed!!
Parts of Eddie Roman's video were discussed 9 months ago in the Flickr Strobist forum. The original discussion is here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157605453955978
-- rpsip
love the links! Keep 'em coming!
Great resources for us all.
Thanks for your continued generosity!
Curtis
David,
I've been lurking around this site for about a week now. On Flickr, I'd see the word "strobist" and had no idea what it meant, some club, whatever--and stumbled on your blog because I thought I might find some help with using a flash. Ha! I've read all of 101, am working my way through the On Assignments before going on to 102, and my God, you keep throwing out these links. Is there a limit to the number of bookmarks I can create on Explorer? I think these latest three may put me over the edge.
Anyway, this long-winded comment is just to thank you, thank you, thank you for this website. It has been so inspiring. It has totally changed the way I think about picture making and light.
Oh, and people should check out the videos on Chase Jarvis' site. He's documented some of his shoots and posted some interviews. They're terrific. Hours (or maybe minutes) of YouTube fun!
Again, my sincerest thanks.
thanks for all the awesome info
bl
Thanks for your Speedlinks and for the inspiration they all provided especially Zach Arias' movie and Tim Mantaoni's article. It's easy to justify our excuses, but just getting out there and firing up your passion again (at least for me) sure beats the hell out of sending out yet another promo email!
Just wanted to confirm what the first anonymous poster mentioned. Joey L's blog most definitely hangs the current version of Apple's Safari 4.
The browser doesn't technically crash, but you'll be unable to continue using it and will need to "Force Quit" it, thereby losing anything else you were doing within it.
The issue, along with a link to the blog, has been reported to Apple. If you're affected, please do the same thing when prompted to report after force quitting Safari.
That said, the link will open fine with Firefox 3 and is definitely worth a look.
The video from Zack Arias was inspired. Truly eye opening and moving.
Thank you very much for putting that in the speedlinks, I will never forget that. In fact I wish I could get a copy of that I could watch over and over.
The pieces by Zack and Tim are excellent. It really helps see stuff like that once in a while to recharge your motor.
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